Knight's move puzzle

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Lord Muck oGentry
view post Posted on 28/11/2012, 03:28




www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8N6_tVI1Wk

Fairly easy chess puzzle. Experienced players will get it very quickly, but you may enjoy it even if you only " know the moves".

White to play, and he can lock the black K and P up by playing to c1 or c2. But one move draws and the other loses. Which is which?

Once you have worked that out for the initial position, see whether you can work out the rule for drawing no matter which square the knight occupies to start with. Don't just guess — prove it! The general discussion starts at about 5 minutes into the video.

Edited by Lord Muck oGentry - 28/11/2012, 14:24
 
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Lord Muck oGentry
view post Posted on 28/11/2012, 14:23




ETA that it is White to play, not Black.
 
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view post Posted on 28/11/2012, 20:40
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That is a very effective example of the problem of current-day logarithmic computation. Nice.

The comment underneath the video links it to Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is still developing. I suspect that over time, computers may be able to recognize that pattern. Recently, google has developed a computer system that was able to recognize cats in images, with some success. The computer learned this by "looking" at 10 million thumbnail images from youtube videos. - By the way, it seems that the computer decided to focus on cats in those videos - maybe because we have a lot of those on youtube. I do not see if they were trying to teach it cats, for example by selecting videos featuring cats.

The specific outcome is not very useful for now, but it does indicate a direction towards more advanced pattern recognition, akin to the human brain.

From some sciency place:
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-google-team-s...ching-cats.html

Or from nytimes:
www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/technolo...wanted=all&_r=0
 
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